Anyway I'm glad Risi is co-entering with Keating's automatic entry as that means one less GTE as whole requesting entry and competing against potential LMP2 spots in the que

Have to say, although I too have a strong bias towards prototypes, I'm actually disappointed by that announcement. I love watching the single Risi entry in Pro taking on the multiple entries of the factories. I shall miss that.

That was after the AMR-One debacle in '11, don't forget. One might see it as the ACO punishing Aston for building such a **** car.

Well Victor, it might of been a dreadful car but it sounded good when it ran and probably added thousands to the gate and the ACO will have loved that, The reasons for the latter treatment of AM is unlikely to be related to that and after all the AM GT cars have a good record.

Have to say, although I too have a strong bias towards prototypes, I'm actually disappointed by that announcement. I love watching the single Risi entry in Pro taking on the multiple entries of the factories. I shall miss that.

Be really interesting to see how Alonso stacks up against Kaz and Buemi as ex F1 drivers.

Thereíll be an assumption that Alonso will blow them out of the water, but Iím not so sure, at least not straight away.

Do you mean from mainstream press? If so I would agree wholeheartedly. But I think everyone familiar with sportscars at least would be aware of the transition and adjustments, and the fact that even Alonso would not be up to speed immediately.

Equally importantly, they (we) would also know that Nakajima & Buemi are brilliant LMP drivers in their own right.

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